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Welcome to the heart of Geek Native: the Tabletop & RPGs category. This is your primary source for the latest RPG news and essential TTRPG news, from blockbuster releases to indie Kickstarter discoveries. We provide in-depth reviews of roleplaying games, board games, and card games, helping you decide what's worth your time and your shelf space. Whether you roll dice, shuffle cards, or push miniatures, you'll find your community and your next obsession right here.

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Meet the Lex Arcana characters

August 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lex Arcana - Elektra Ziais

Last week Geek Native shared a free to download Lex Arcana Quickstarter. This is an alternative Rome with fantasy mixed in and a world where Divination stopped the Empire from falling. It’s a game that first came out in 1993 and has built a huge following in Europe and has some of the world’s most […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: fantasy, lex arcana, quality games, wallpapers

Dystopia Rising: Evolution rises on Kickstarter

August 23, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dystopia Rising - Evolution

As Geek Native reported in January Oynx Path has the Dystopia Rising license and today they’ve launched their Kickstarter. [Back this Campaign] A pledge of US$20 will get you a PDF of the core book and US$50 gets you both the Dystopia Rising: Evolution core book in hardcover and PDF for ‘at cost’ print on […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Eddy Webb, Eschaton Media, kickstarters, onyx path publishing, storypath, zombies

Design your anime! Kickstarter lets fans pitch anime ideas

August 22, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Channel A

Evil Hat Productions the publisher behind Fate has gone to Kickstarter for Channel A. This is a card game in which you have to pitch ideas for an anime series. It launched today and is racing to 100 backers and the US$15,000 it is asking for. You can follow progress on the Kickstarter campaign page. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: anime, board games, kickstarters

Besides Drow and Illithids what else might adventurers encounter in the Underdark?

August 21, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Underdark Encounter

Here’s a question that DMs of the Forgotten Realms might have to ask themselves every now and then. Besides Drow and Illithids what else might adventurers encounter in the Underdark? It can be quite a challenging terrain to DM. I mean, can you describe the darkness for tunnel after tunnel while keeping the player’s attention? […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, monsters

RPG Inspiration: Ancient Scotland

August 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Are you trying to come up with images and scenery suitable for your RPG? Filmmaker Joh Duncan just shared a film called ‘Ancient Scotland’ that shows twenty-one unusual locations from the air. Here we have ancient wonders, castles and islands. It was a hard film to make, physically demanding and often wrestling with the weather. […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Legendlore RPG due 2019 from Onyx Path and Caliber Comics

August 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Legendlore comic

Legendlore and The Realm are comic book series from Caliber Comics. The Realm is the fantasy world of orcs, magic and dragons and in Legendlore four teenagers from our modern day world find themselves plunged into it. Onyx Path Publishing and Caliber Comics have signed a partnership which will bring Legendlore into print and digital […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: legendlore, onyx path publishing, Steffie de Vaan

This is how you get a world filled with dungeons: the true story of a temple digging compulsion

August 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Underground temple

Dungeons are a big part of Dungeons & Dragons adventures and many other similar roleplaying games. A few years ago Geek Native put together a list of 22 reasons why your fantasy RPG has so many dungeons, but sometimes true stories are stranger than fiction. What if people in your fantasy world just had a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Era: The Chosen – An RPG of horror across three time periods

August 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Era: The Chosen

Geek Native has covered Shades of Vengeance Era Kickstarters before and the latest looks to stick closely to the design principles of the previous. Era: The Chosen is a horror RPG in which PCs are from human clans fighting to save the world from The Anonassi. The project has funded already. At the time of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: horror, kickstarters, monsters, Shades of Vengeance

Brace yourself for impact: The remarkable Degenesis RPG is coming

August 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Degenesis RPG - Rebirth Edition

SIXMOREVODKA is a conceptual art studio in Berlin. They’re sought after by movie companies, game makers and comic book publishers, and they have a roleplaying game called Degenesis. You can read more about Degenesis the Rebirth Edition over at SIXMOREVODKA’s website, and there’s a short introduction to the game below. Degenesis is set in the […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, Asmodee, degenesis, sixmorevodka, trailers

A glance inside L’gat’s Tome of Amazing Creatures

August 19, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

L'gat's Amazing Creatures

Power Up Gamers have a new Kickstarter live, and it’s for the sequel to L’gat’s Tome of Amazing Creatures. Their tagline is Roleplayers for Accessibility and in Power Up Gamers introduction to L’gat’s Tome v1 they thanks the gaming community for being a safe space for all people regardless of their gender, sexuality, physical handicap […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, monsters

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